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Author: crazysamaritan

Dec 29th 2013 at 11:41:48 AM

Adding context and namespacing for existing examples:

* Fievel's family does this twice.  ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' tells the story of their travel from Europe to America, as they escape the cats of Russia.  Then the sequel, ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest'', has the family continuing to a midwest frontier town where "cats and mice live in harmony". 
* Inverted and parodied in the comedy ''Film/WagonsEast'', where the failing settlers hire a wagon master to help them ''leave'' the West, and return to the homes they left behind when they tried frontier life.

* ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' is an ancient chinese story about Xuanzang and his mission to find the scrolls of Buddha and bring them back home.  He and his protectors go far west, beyond the mountains, to find the scrolls.

* Music/PetShopBoys have a song, "Go West", where the "west" in the song is a paradise the singer is inviting people to join him in going to. 
* Music/TomWaits has a song, "Goin' Out West", where the singer is trying to escape his current life and start a new one "out west", where people will "appreciate him".

* In ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', Odysseus is trying to go home, after the events of ''The Illiad''.  The story is about the seven-year journey it takes him to return to his wife.